It's often put in terms of the relationship between the part and the whole. I approach a text and of course the first thing I read is a phrase or a sentence.

经常可以理解为,局部和整体的关系，我看到文本后,首先读到的东西理所当然是一个短语或一个句子。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So I'm going to read passages, and I hope you'll jump around with me if you have the text in your hand.

拿到文章的同学，尽量和我一起看,以后上课。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选